The Indie Rock Hit Parade returns to your on-the-move lifestyle tonight at 10pm on XPN! Listen in for new music from those lovable rascals Parquet Courts, who have just unleashed their second album of 2014. Content Nausea is out now and we’ll hear a few tracks from it on tonight’s Album Spotlight. We’ve also got new tracks like these to get to in tonight’s full, two-hour show:Continue reading →

The Indie Rock Hit Parade returns tonight with a full two-hours of new and exciting tracks just for you! Tune in at 10pm for an all-new mix, featuring a spotlight on the new solo album from Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, plus a few of these selections:

Seriously – how many times are we going to tell this story? Awesome musician comes to town, plays show, wakes up the next morning to find all their gear stolen. In the case of Thurston Moore, who played Space 1026 last night, it was his sticker-covered circa-1960 Fender Jazzmaster guitar, one he often played live and one which appeared in many Sonic Youth photos and videos over the years. It was taken from the Best Western on 22nd and Pennsylvania Avenue, just north of the Parkway. From Thurston on Sonic Youth’s website:

A police report has been filed. Please email us if anyone tries to sell this relic to your store, it would be appreciated. Please forward to other guitar stores you may know in the area. … it has a Mastery Bridge, and the pickguard has been changed so stickers might be different. it’s a 1960 serial#41927

This isn’t the first time Sonic Youth had gear stolen; on tour in July of 1999, they suffered quite a loss of guitars, amps and records. It’s also not the first time a touring musician in Philadelphia has had gear stolen; folks from Frank Black to Kill Hannah have suffered this fate over the years. I’d try to make a log of all the incidents just in recent memory but it’s almost too embarrassing / depressing. For real, Philadelphia – stop stealing from touring musicians.

Last night, experimental guitarist and Sonic Youth founding member Thurston Moore played a collaborative, improvisatory set at Space 1026 in Chinatown with drummer John Maloney. Northampton, Massachusetts four-piece Speedy Ortiz opened the show; you can check out a gallery images from both sets above, and see a 14-second YouTube clip to give you a sense of the overall vibe after the jump. Continue reading →

Photo by Brian HamelmanRoanoke, VA trio Eternal Summers open for Nada Surf tonight at the First Unitarian Church. The indie dream-pop/”who-cares-rock” band released their second full-length record earlier this year called Correct Behavior through Kanine Records, with the opening song “Millions” earning a Best New Track rating on Pitchfork. Tickets and information for tonight’s intimate show with Nada Surf and It’s a King Thing can be found here. Below, watch Eternal Summer’s video for “Good As You.”

Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore teamed up with frequent on-stage collaborator John Moloney (Howlin’ Rain) for the experimental Caught on Taperelease earlier this year, and the duo is now taking the project on the road. Moore’s work has spanned the punk rock, avant-garde singer-songwriter and drone-y noise genres over the years and this latest work falls heavily into the latter to the delight of psychedelic distortion fans. You may recognize Moloney as the sometimes-drummer in Moore’s solo project touring band and more recently as a member of Chelsea Light Moving, a quartet featuring fellow touring band members Keith Wood (Hush Arbors) and Samara Lubelski. Thurston Moore & John Moloney perform with Speedy Ortiz at Space 1026 on Wednesday, December 12th. Tickets and information can be found here. Listen to an excerpt of Caught on Tape below, and download the more rock-angled Chelsea Light Moving tracks for free here.

Thurston Moore has been a music scene fixture for nearly 30 years. You might think that, at 53, the former Sonic Youth guitarist would be thinking about retirement. But you’d be wrong. Moore returned yet again this spring with the Beck-produced Demolished Thoughts, a thoughtful, meandering album that takes his talents in a new (and no less interesting) direction. Though Moore’s reputation was built on experimental rock, Demolished Thoughts is a tight succession of folksy acoustic songs, full of harps, violins and 12-string guitars. Its attention to detail and melodic flourishes will win Moore new fans. Thurston Moore plays with Meg Baird at 8 p.m. at First Unitarian Church; tckets to the all-ages show are $15–$17.

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